Once Did Move
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How long do I have to wait for Time?
Life's cruelest blow still feel
Maybe I can bury my sorrow in this rhyme
Until the final day my time here seal.
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I thought that my pain's edges dulled
That each day easier to survive
But such sorrow to these words not lulled
Not enough to be simply alive.
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That there is a hope for someone new
Instead, the darkness is swirling around
Whoever she may be, she will never be you
The one woman where my love was found....

Past this Cup
I don’t know how this day will end
I would like to think over it have some control
Sitting here enjoying my coffee blend
For the rest of life, I don’t honesty know.
Everything is starting, around me, to spin
I have to hang on for a little while
But over our mortality we can never win
Let me see if I can least go with a smile.
I hear people speaking as if this an ordinary day
Little do they know what around them lies
How brief in this world is their stay
Too soon ...

In this Rhyme
With your spirit gone what else remain?
This world cannot its riches boast
For a jewel in sorrow's light but plain
When Life takes what you love the most.
I am but Death undone, an empty shell
A ghost where once my blood did flow
And doomed this lonely world to dwell
This burial ground no other death need know.
The most vivid sounds I hear but mute to me
Its brightest colors are only coldly dull
The only taste I have is for eternity
To take me from this place Life...

Sonnet 343 (Your Love)
How sweet your voice that lightens up my day
When robins sing your chords their notes inspire
A perfect melody their music play
Arousing in this man still more desire.
How wonderful your eyes that stir my soul
I look into as mirrors of your heart
And this day's light, through them, does clearly show
I learn that, from your sight, can’t live apart.
How heavenly your walk is on Earth's land
Massaging fawning breezes in your wake
Your spritely sway where my s...

Sonnet 342 (Your Love I Know)
The boughs are bare where late the birds once sang
And, too, the garden cold where flowers grew
And gone the warmth the day too me once brang
Those sunny days that I had spent with you.
And darkness falls where once the day so bright
The night too quickly ushered in its place
This world is best when in your eyes alight
And winter thawing where your beauty trace.
And you the sun where my own soul does live
Like birds that always sing their melody
So ...

Sonnet 340 (Final Winter)
I watch as leaves from Arbor safety fall
Once swathed in summer breaths of cold now blast
Their brilliant shades can’t breach the nighttime pall
What seemed so long, in truth, can never last.
And, so, I saw forever in a leaf
Before its cradle of tranquility
And learned our life’s own season is as brief
While Heaven did beckon only distantly.
And though the leaf did fall, the tree stood still
What fragile showed, to me, a higher plane
We are like leaves...

Sonnet 339 (Time's Hand)
And soon the steely hand of Time will come
To coldly grasp the one who makes life sweet
Now like a winter tree whose leaves succumb
My life a barren place where once complete.
The honeyed melodies that birds once taught
Will strike the chords of loneliness in me
The blissful warmth the morning sun once brought
May still rise high but darkness all I'll see.
Where once we lay before the ocean's shore
And as we kissed the waves did gently sigh
These fawning...

Sonnet 338 (The Only Certainty)
Don't think you ever know what time will bring
Despite what certainty you think you know
For all your facts are but a fragile thing
Like sturdy trees, away, the wind will blow.
And even mountains, too, one day erode
Today that seem, on earth, invincible
But underneath their realm their end unfold
To us, their majesty most visible.
And ocean waves seem destined for the shore
Not thinking that, one day, they will run dry
But at their banks yo...